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Rachel Mesch, "Before Trans: Three Gender Stori...
Mesch reads the biographies and work of three writers who did not conform to the gender norms of the period...
59 min
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Tamar Herzig, "A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, an...
Salomone da Sesso, was so good at his job that he was a verifiable celebrity. He had a very complex relationship with, and occasionally ran afoul of, his fellow Jews, so much so that he is charged with sodomy (amongst other things) and coverts to Christianity....
61 min
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Audrey Truschke, “Aurangzeb: The Life and Legac...
For many, the history of the Mughal empire looms heavy over contemporary South Asian social imaginaries. The lightning rod figure within modern day myths about the past is the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707)...
64 min
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Charles Allan McCoy, "Diseased States: Epidemic...
McCoy provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century...
47 min
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James C. Pearce, "The Use of History in Putin's...
History matters in Russia. It really matters, so much so that the state has a "historical policy" to help legitimize itself and support its policy agenda...
32 min
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Jovana Babović, "Metropolitan Belgrade: Culture...
Babović examines the ways in which middle-class Belgraders negotiated metropolitan modernity in the interwar era.
44 min
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Behnaz A. Mirzai, "A History of Slavery and Ema...
Mirzai offers the first history of slavery in modern Iran from the early nineteenth century to emancipation in the mid-twentieth century...
61 min
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Eryn M. White, "The Welsh Methodist Society: Th...
White focuses on the movement that became known as the Calvinistic Methodists, a community that emerged under the leadership of outstanding organisers, orators and hymnwriters....
29 min
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Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro a...
Hall colorfully details an extraordinary visit by Fidel Castro to New York in the Autumn of 1960 for the opening of the UN General Assembly...
38 min
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Harriet Evans, "Beijing from Below: Stories of ...
Between the early 1950s and the accelerated demolition and construction of Beijing's “old city” in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, the residents of Dashalar—one of the capital city's poorest neighborhoods...
84 min
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Jeff Schauer, "Wildlife between Empire and Nati...
Schauer explains how this global attention to African wildlife evolved from late nineteenth century to the present...
48 min
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Crawford Gribben, "An Introduction to John Owen...
Gribben details his subject’s conception of the roles that belief and doctrine should play in the lives of Christians....
33 min
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Richard G. Moore, "The Writings of Oliver Olney...
Oliver H. Olney, an early convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fled to Nauvoo, Illinois, following persecution in Missouri...
32 min
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Sara Mayeux, "Free Justice: A History of the Pu...
Mayeux explores the rise, both in the idea and practice, of the public defender throughout the 20th century...
52 min
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Philip Nash, "Breaking Protocol: America's Firs...
Nash examines the history of the "Big Six" and how they carved out their rightful place in history..
64 min
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John Barton, "A History of the Bible: The Story...
How did the Bible become the Bible? It's a long story....
59 min
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Mary Augusta Brazelton, "Mass Vaccination: Citi...
Mary Augusta Brazelton examines the PRC's public health campaigns of the 1950s to explain just how China managed to inoculate almost six hundred million people against this and other deadly diseases...
92 min
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Charisse Burden-Stelly, "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life...
Why is the scholarship and advocacy work of W.E.B. Du Bois so relevant for 21st century politics?
65 min
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Sto...
"The Perfect Fascist" pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall...
60 min
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Rafael Medoff, "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Fra...
Roosevelt could have bombed the camps and saved Jews. Why didn't he? It's a hard question....
58 min
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Alicia Turner, "The Irish Buddhist: The Forgott...
This is the story of U Dhammaloka, an Irishman who “went native” and became a Buddhist monk in British Burma at the turn of the twentieth century...
48 min
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Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Mediterra...
A history of the "middle sea" from prehistory to today....
30 min
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S. Grayzel and T. Proctor, "Gender and the Grea...
The centenary of the First World War from 2014 to 2018 offered an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak...
36 min
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Paul Moyer, "Detestable and Wicked Arts: New En...
Witch hunts. Not the metaphorical kind. Real witch hunts. Learn all about it here...
43 min
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Chris Yogerst, "Hollywood Hates Hitler!: Jew-ba...
In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering...
64 min